thanks guys for all your help this is p**sing me off now can get the box with 2 monitors but not progressing much so i think i will just admit it aint for me:-(

this is the only thing on computers is 16 frxking years that has beat me!!!!

Mega...

MB, when you get the box with two monitors, if you click on the one that says "2", don't you get two tick boxes below, one of which saying "extend desktop onto this monitor"?

Before giving up totally, try reinstalling the drivers. These are the latest ones: http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/latest/home.cfm

will give it a go..thanks

Recently, when I start up my computer, I get a message " Required DLL file, IMGDLL 32DLL not found" By double clicking on file I am still able to use computer with no apparant problems. I have searched all programm and operating system CD's and have been unable to find this file. Can anyone advise.

Thanks in advance

EDIT- OH! I'm on win 98 2nd ed

Win XP Home version won't do multiple monitors, one needs win XP Pro
K

KeithB - I have XP Home and have successfully used a G550 with dual monitors and now a P750 with triple monitors. Have I misunderstood your post?

MB

An IE window can be 'Maximised' or 'Minimised' - or 'Inbetween sized'.

The 'Inbetween sized' is the important size with multiple monitors because it's this one you need to be able to drag the windows about from one monitor screen to the other.

You do this by putting the mouse pointer on the blue band at the top of the window, holding a left click down and then dragging the window to where you want it. You can re-size the window when you have it on the correct monitor or even stretch an 'Inbetween sized' window to fill the whole of all of your two, three or even four screens.

As a practice, put a window on the LHS monitor, make it "Inbetween sized' and then stretch this one window to fill the whole of both of your two monitor screens.

KeithB, I don't have or use XP but I very much doubt that you need xp pro for multiple monitors, the drivers are the deciding factor, not the OS.

Have to agree that the matter of the dual monitors is down to the drivers. I have an Ati Radeon with dual monitor support. It worked fine under windows 98, but when I upgraded to Xp professional additional drivers were required

Only really confirming what others say!

Tiny/Time modem problem

I have cracked it, used new modem and new browser ( AvantBrowser). accessed windows downloads and reinstalled IE6 which was corrupted or sabotaged.

Now working fine

Bobcolby

"....used new modem..."

Did you have to buy a new modem then?

DocProc; yes used external usb modem

Heeeelp - I keep getting pop ups! Where from? Yesterday was ok and today is not. I haven't visited anywhere strange or unusual or pornographic, just usual morning checklist. I ran Adaware and it said I had various dataminers and trackers and something called purity scan. I got it to delete them all but I'm still getting all these bloody pop ups, some for credit cards, some for porn sites and some general stuff. How can I find the program that is generating them? I've never encountered this problem before? I have xp home, use the xp firewall and NAV2003 which is up to date.

And one just now saying "click here to get a pop up stopper" very f&*king witty!

Robb

Check here for info on purity scan http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.purityscan.html

It looks as though puriy scan is an Adaware program

Thanks optimist. I remembered that someone had a similiar problem and Spaceman and DocProc gave some advice about dealing with these programs. Adaware6 seemed to get rid of the purity program but I'm still getting pop ups so I'm downloading spybot and then I'll do webroot. Bloody things. How the hell did it get in is want I want to know!

Robb, I use both adaware and Spybot Search and Destroy as often one finds stuff that the other doesnt. In this case I think Spybot can remove purity.

By the way Adaware upgraded their free scanner in such a way that you could miss a major upgrade and end up with very out of date spyware info, make sure you have build 6.181 which should show at the bottom left of the main Adaware scree when the program is started.

Spaceman

Thanks. I have run both adaware6.181 and SpybotS+D and adaware identified and sorted purityscan but I am still getting the pop ups. Clickspring.net seems to be the problem. Have you ever heard of Panicware? They advertise a free popup stopper that will kill the program. For the moment I have put clickspring.net in the restricted sites list in Tools-InternetOptions-Security. That seems to have stopped it for the minute but obviously I want to kill and double kill the b&st&rd program wherever it is hiding!

Thanks
Rob

Robb

Panicware works well at stopping IE popups but if these are bing generated by a program running on your computer you need to get it sorted rather than let Panicware sweep it under the carpet as you don't know what other info it will send out.

If you have got a trojan running then it could be started by an entry in your startup groups but more likley by an entry in these registry keys:-

HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
and
HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

Check what have you got listed under these keys and do a google search for them. If you are sure that an entry is unwanted then delete it and the program it referes to.

Always be very careful when using the registry editor. You can do serious harm to your system and there is no undo. Export the keys that you are working on first and then make a note of changes as you do them.

The trojan could also be called by a dll entry which only the scanning programs will be able to find.

Robb, clickspring.net isnt one I have heard of and I cant find out much about it. spywareinfo forums probably have info but they are still offline following the DOS attacks on them recently. This sort of trojan hijack is a real pain.

I agree with Optimist installing a blocker is not sorting the problem just the symptoms.

2 short term things that might help, if clicksprings.net is being contacted to sent the ads block that site in either IE settings or your firewall.

Also if ads are being delivered via messenger stop the messenger service.

Sorry this isnt much help. I will have another search later this evening.